(Encyclopedia) Stanislaus II, 1732–98, last king of Poland (1764–95). He was born Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski. His mother was a member of the powerful Czartoryski family, which furthered…
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In July 2005, a team from the California Institute of Technology announced the discovery of a possible “tenth planet” temporarily called 2003 UB313. This most distant object so far found in our…
Mercury mission coincides with journey of New Horizons as it crosses the orbit of Uranus by Catherine McNiff Related Links Space Shuttle TimelineSpace Shuttle (Encyclopedia) Space…
At long last, scientists announced the discovery of the missing piece to the Standard Model of physics by Catherine McNiff Two scientists checking equipment in the central…
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